The Minister in his response to Deputy Stagg stated that The Garda Commissioner, with his senior managers and Divisional Officers arranges for the allocation of Gardai throughout the State and that they are aided in this by a distribution model known as the Garda Establishment Redistribution Model (GERM).

Today's protest in M&S in Dublin ended when the security guards in the store called the Gardaí who arrived and forcefully arrested one of the demonstrators and charged him with damaging Marks and Spencer property.

Hearing two men had accompanied the young woman into both stores but had left when security called the Gardaí, Judge Fahy said they were treating these thefts like a business and the amounts involved were large.

An important Christian colony existed in Greenland for nearly 400 years -- from some time in the tenth to near the end of the fourteenth century, -- a colony in which, in the fourteenth century, there were 190 townships and a town called Garda, in which were a cathedral, bishop's seat, and twelve or thirteen churches, besides other Christian establishments, with a regular succession of bishops for their superintendence, of whom seventeen are named in the sagas.

I love these turnings, and now, in these years of change and prosperity, I love the untidy crowds in the streets, the idea of a night not finished, the Garda car edging its way along the pedestrianized street with young Gardaí looking out at us suspiciously as though they were thinking of having furtive sex with us.